palkee

plural palkees

1. archaicArchaic form of palki (“an Indian litter, a palanquin”).

   At three o'clock the next morning we began the ascent of the Ghauts in palanquins, or, as they are commonly called, palkees, with coolies to transport our baggage and provisions.

   1897, Anna Harriette Leonowens, Life and Travel in India..., page 211

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   These palkees, which, to an inexperienced person, offer, even when empty, a hopeless weight, are conveyed by them, with a heavy passenger within, at the rate of twenty or thirty miles a day

   1859, John Williamson Palmer, Up and Down the Irrawaddi